SleepyBat.9034

Evade on Egun 4 would be good since it would help with engineer survivability against burst builds, something elixir builds are lacking.

We will have to wait and see how much power they give inventions.

More of a gimmick pvp/wvw build.

That's a thief issue.

Deserved. Axe thief is kitten

Bro thinks getting instagibbed by power roamers is fun 💀

When can we get a rework to Crystal Configuration: Storm on Holosmith? This trait is so useless and it's completely overshadowed by the other two options.

Not as much as you think. It'll be those same specs with slightly different stats.

So, when are they dropping the willbender and thief nerfs? No point returning otherwise.

My main complaint about WvW is the lack of game development and balance. PvE sucks up all the development resources so WvW gets almost nothing. This is the problem with game modes inside MMOs. The future of territory control PvP games is in standalone titles.

I agree with this. Every other class got some insane competitive EoD spec and Engineer got an rp wanabe ranger.

I'm glad it's dead. I've never seen such a kitten build.

step 4: add a bunch of powercreep and then never adjust.

Unplayable in a meta of willbender and thief.

deadeye...

I never did like the stacking on top of each other gameplay of large-scale WvW.

Most of this is cringe cherry-picking behavior. Ele main complaining by the way. I'm not sure what you're smoking, Scrapper hasn't had perma Superspeed in WvW for years. You're grasping at straws out of spite to troll. Holosmith doesn't have excess quickness and you know it, and Reaper has some of the slowest cast times in the game so Quickness access is fair compensation. As for Scrapper, that class can be redesigned from the ground up for all I care, I never liked it. Again, you're being spitefully selective for no reason and it's freaking annoying. Nobody complains about "excess low CD CC" on Holosmith or Scrapper, it's not a thing. As for Reaper, I wasn't aware that 25-40-second cooldowns counted as low in your book. No mention of Warrior or Druid at all, as expected. I didn't mention anything about excess damage, condition, or otherwise because it would apply to virtually every class in the game. If I did, Harbinger would probably be near the top of the list and Scrapper would be mid if it was on it at all. Again with the permanent Superspeed nonsense? I'd have to do some personal research on nade about face spam before I decide. Me defending Elixir of Ambition? Delusional. I play Reaper, not Harbinger. I think Chill ought to be 33% reduced movement speed and cooldown reduction tbh. Harbinger has virtually no chill at all, stop talking about things you're clueless about. Seems like a reach, current sustain levels are still pretty degen so I'm inclined to say it's a non-issue. I'd have to think about it. If it's overperforming because of a degen mechanic. Sure.

Neither of those is overperforming in WvW atm. I won't pretend they're on the level of thief and most EoD specs in WvW.

I've fought condi Druids before, even a small Stealth can be incredibly kitten since it almost guarantees the ability to juke your opponents and resustain when coupled with burst mobility. Star Craft 2 has the best implementation of Stealth I've seen so far.

They are plenty impactful, even if you aren't playing a Warrior. If you are it's a guaranteed loss condition. I will concede that Blind spam is probably only a serious issue on p/p Thief since it has a 100% chance to apply Blind while attacking if it's standing in a smoke field. Combine that with the unblockable blind from Black Powder and you have a degen build. Also, the 15x activation is something I take issue with because it makes limited access to Blind and Aegis completely useless. I could probably put Evade spam on that list, to be honest.

Permanent/pulsing Stability: Catalyst and Willbender. Permanent/pulsing Aegis: Willbender and Bladesworn. Permanent reflect: Bladesworn. Blind spam: Thief and Flashbang Engineers. Weakness spam: Harbinger. Distortion spam: Virtuoso. Pulsing daze/cc: Dagger Mirage and Harbinger. GW2 implementation of Stealth. Chill: Excess movement speed reduction and skill cooldown reduction. Excessive access to Teleports/Shadowsteps: Willbender and Thief. Excessive access to instant cast skills: Chronomancer. Excessive access to unblockable attacks: Virtuoso. Excessive access to multi-hitting attacks: Willbender, Catalyst, P/P Thief. Excessive sustain.

It would be nice if Roiling Skies were a flip-over ripost skill. Zero defensive skills is rough.

The playerbase isn't big enough for that.

Can we talk about the range? 130 on the auto attack for a spear? Did my guy break off the haft and use the tip like a knife or something?

I have yet to land a 5 skill on a moving target.